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Representations of Compact Lie Groups

By Theodor Bröcker , Tammo Tom Dieck

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1985
ISBN
9780387136783, 0-387-13678-9
LCC
QA387 .B68 1985
Open Library ID
OL2857663M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
8 MB (8065381 bytes)
Series
Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Edition
Corr. 2nd print
Pages
327\327
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

This book is an introduction to the representation theory of compact Lie groups, following Hermann Weyl's original approach. Although the authors discuss all aspects of finite-dimensional Lie theory, the emphasis throughout the book is on the groups themselves. The presentation is consequently more geometric and analytic than algebraic in nature. The central results, culminating the Weyl character formula, are reached directly and quickly, and they appear in forms suitable for applications to physics and geometry.This book is a good reference and a source of explicit computations, for physicists and mathematicians. Each section is supplemented by a wide range of exercices, and geometric ideas are illustrated with the help of 24 figures

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